Error - EADDRINUSE

[Ice-cream]

Hi everyone, I’m new to MM and coding.

Situation - when I ran , I received an odd note in my terminal (copied the below from Google).

Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::8080
    at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1258:14)
    at listenInCluster (net.js:1306:12)
    at Server.listen (net.js:1394:7)

I found some instructions online and then KILLED something in the terminal (again copied from Google):

node 2464 murari 21u IPv6 4392639 0t0 TCP *:http-alt

So I killed MY PID which was a different number and I’ve sort of fucked up my MM.

When I run the MM, I receive this error now - could someone please help? Thank you Xx

code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '[deleted]',
  port: 8080
}
[2020-07-26 09:30:22.750] [ERROR]  MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[2020-07-26 09:30:22.750] [ERROR]  If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
[2020-07-26 09:30:22.780] [LOG]    Launching application.
^C

[sdetweil]

@Ice-cream

if u reboot, does mm start?

how did u install? the automated script? if so, did u say yes to “use pm2 to autostart”?

maybe do

pm2 status

otherwise some other app is using the same port as mm wants to use.

edit config.js, and change

port:8080, 

to

port:8090,

[Ice-cream]

Sorry, that did not work - error I receive.
code: ‘EADDRINUSE’,
errno: ‘EADDRINUSE’,
syscall: ‘listen’,
address: ‘[delete]’,
port: 8090

Yes MM auto-starts on reboot > yes to automated script > I followed these steps: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror.

The current error when I run

pm2 restart mm

Use --update-env to update environment variables
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0,1)
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â 0 â mm â fork â 0 â errored â 0% â 0b â
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I’ve also run

pm2 logs mm

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pm2 logs mm
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [mm] process (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-error.log last 15 lines:
0|mm | npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.12.0 start script.
0|mm | npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
0|mm |
0|mm | npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
0|mm | npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-07-26T00_13_44_413Z-debug.log
0|mm | npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
0|mm | npm ERR! errno 1
0|mm | npm ERR! magicmirror@2.12.0 start: DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
0|mm | npm ERR! Exit status 1
0|mm | npm ERR!
0|mm | npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.12.0 start script.
0|mm | npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
0|mm |
0|mm | npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
0|mm | npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-07-26T00_36_04_600Z-debug.log

I’ve just checked and I do not have a doc electron.js from this source - ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js.

I remember that all I did was type kill in the terminal and killed a number - what mess have I caused!!! I’m so sorry :(

The instructions I followed - I stopped after I entered kill and the number (I think mine began with a 5 or 9)

[sdetweil]

@Ice-cream can u show me the top of config.js and show me how u start magic mirror

[Ice-cream]

@sdetweil

config = {
	address: "localhost", 	// Address to listen on, can be:
							// - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
							// - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
							// - "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
							// Default, when address config is left out or empty, is "localhost"
	port: 8090,
	basePath: "/", 	// The URL path where MagicMirror is hosted. If you are using a Reverse proxy
					// you must set the sub path here. basePath must end with a /
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], 	// Set [] to allow all IP addresses
															// or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
															// ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
															// or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
															// ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	useHttps: false, 		// Support HTTPS or not, default "false" will use HTTP
	httpsPrivateKey: "", 	// HTTPS private key path, only require when useHttps is true
	httpsCertificate: "", 	// HTTPS Certificate path, only require when useHttps is true

[sdetweil]

@Ice-cream ok, all. makes no sense do

pm2 stop 0
reboot

now, system should reboot, and mm should not restart.

then do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile 2>&1

if mm does not start press ctr-c to stop the npm start

edit the somefile